Signifying Passages: The Signs Of Change In Israeli Street Names  

Oleh:

Pinchevski, Amit ; Torgovnik, Efraim

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Media, Culture & Society vol. 24 no. 3 (May 2002), page 365-388.
Topik: collective memory; commemoration; Israeli culture; spatial text; symbolic power; urban symbols
Fulltext: 365MCS243.pdf (111.93KB)

Isi artikel

Street names are mundane media through which the past is commemorated and introduced into the public sphere. Viewed from a semiotic perspective, street names constitute a spatial-text produced over time, capturing the political, social and cultural climates in which it is formed. In this article we propose an analysis of street names in four Israeli towns of different social, political and demographic backgrounds. The study is based on a two-stage analysis: an analysis of the local narratives and a hermeneutic reading of the street maps as spatial-texts. This is followed by a quantitative summary of street names according to categories. By studying practices of naming and renaming, and deciphering key elements in these spatial-texts, we conclude that street names reflect the changing character of the Israeli political, social and cultural orders. As such, they are indicative of shifts occurring in the social production of the Israeli collective memory.

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